Why Did We Invade Iraq? (w/ Dennis Fritz)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Dennis Fritz is the author of the new book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq(OR Books), which dives into the hist...
19 Aug 202442min
Understanding Biden's Foreign Policy (w/ Richard Beck)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Richard Beck is a senior writer for N+1 magazine and the author of the forthcoming book Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life. His recent ar...
16 Aug 202437min
How to Read Nietzsche (And How The Left Should Feel About Him)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Interestingly, thinkers on both the right and left have found inspira...
14 Aug 202444min
How Fox News Turns People Terrified and Paranoid (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)
Get new episodes at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Kat Abughazaleh has watched a lot of Fox News. As an analyst for Media Matters, her job was to monitor the Fox primetime shows, producing videos document...
9 Aug 202442min
Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Jeffrey Sachs is an economist at Columbia University and the author of the book A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, which argues ...
7 Aug 202436min
What Biden's Changes to Asylum Mean For Immigrants
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Aaron Reichlin-Melnick is the Policy Director of the American Immigration Council and a leading expert on U.S. immigration law. He has testified be...
5 Aug 202448min
How "Pharmacy Benefit Managers" Are Extorting Us (w/ Max from UNFTR)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Max (just Max) is the host of Unfucking the Republic (UNFTR), one of our favorite podcasts. UNFTR publishes intensively-researched deep dives into ...
2 Aug 202440min
Why Everyone Feels So Rotten About the Economy (w/ Kyla Scanlon)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Kyla Scanlon is a leading online economics commentator and Bloomberg contributor, who regularly publishes TikTok explainers helping people understa...
31 Juli 202433min
